Reply #23: Yep. My favorite is the hip surgery story about Canadian national health care. [View All]

[Cleita]

A new version of this story seems to pop up every year. It has to do with a patient being forced to wait in line six months to a year to even beyond that for hip surgery. In the latest version, the truth is that the patient did have to wait that long but when you dig into it, it turns out they aren't telling you the whole story of this hip surgery tale. It seems that the patient, was mentally unstable, and postponed surgeries himself. Then he had a heart bypass operation and the surgeon felt that it was too soon to have the surgery so it was postponed again. There never was a line that he had to wait in as the astroturf would have you believe.